Royally screwed up, NTLDR has gone missing apparently

[jesus2nd]

Eyup,

Just put the finishing touches to my latest build with a decent cpu fan and sat down to get my head around overclocking the cpu a bit. Messing around with various software, thinking I was running somethat that would show me my stats it starting trying to auto-overclock. It rebooted almost straight away before I had time to work out what was going on and on the boot up its saying that the NTLDR is missed and to ctrl+alt+del to reboot.

I've tried running with the windows disk in but I have some trouble in the system recovery with it saying that it it can't the find the drivers of any windows installed,

What am I to do, how FUBAR'd am I?

EDIT: This is how I feel http://youtu.be/ee925OTFBCA

 

[R2DUAL]

hi, i know this sounds stiupid but is your sata cable in, normaly means your system cant find the os check hard drive connections.

 

[jesus2nd]

hi, i know this sounds stiupid but is your sata cable in, normaly means your system cant find the os check hard drive connections.

I haven't unplugged anything inside, as I say it was all running fine until I made the idotic move of running the auto clock software without having a clue what I was doing.

 

[Savage_Smithy]

just get your os disk and repair/reinstall it, should be fine then. it is probably just corrupted from the crash / hard reset. its happened to me before but there are some settings to change to stop it doing that i think. something to do with drive cache?

 

[Gammawolf]

It's possible that the overclock failed and reset your mobo to default settings. In which case it might be trying to boot from something other than your HDD.. I'd give the BIOS a good look over and make sure things havn't changed like IDE/ACHI, boot orders, enabled boot devices etc

 

[Rroff]

As above (assuming its not trying to boot from the wrong disk) you need to use a repair disk to fix the filesystem on the HDD... this can be complicated tho - especially as depending on your version of windows and configuration even the repair/OS disks sometimes try to use the NTLDR from your primary disk!.

If you google for "repair NTLDR" you will find dozens of guides covering the different aspects.

 

[jesus2nd]

Cheers lads, My windows repaid disc keeps on rambling on about not been able to find drivers so I'll give that some research first.

Then I'll take a look at the BIOS, I took a quick look earlier and everything seemed to be in order as far as I can remember

 

[jesus2nd]

Fixed, Guess I should have just trusted google in the first place, still...better safe than sorry eh?

thanks once again.